linux/tools
Daniel Borkmann 3f356385e8 filter: bpf_asm: add minimal bpf asm tool
There are a couple of valid use cases for a minimal low-level bpf asm
like tool, for example, using/linking to libpcap is not an option, the
required BPF filters use Linux extensions that are not supported by
libpcap's compiler, a filter might be more complex and not cleanly
implementable with libpcap's compiler, particular filter codes should
be optimized differently than libpcap's internal BPF compiler does,
or for security audits of emitted BPF JIT code for prepared set of BPF
instructions resp. BPF JIT compiler development in general.

Then, in such cases writing such a filter in low-level syntax can be
an good alternative, for example, xt_bpf and cls_bpf users might have
requirements that could result in more complex filter code, or one that
cannot be expressed with libpcap (e.g. different return codes in
cls_bpf for flowids on various BPF code paths).

Moreover, BPF JIT implementors may wish to manually write test cases
in order to verify the resulting JIT image, and thus need low-level
access to BPF code generation as well. Therefore, complete the available
toolchain for BPF with this small bpf_asm helper tool for the tools/net/
directory. These 3 complementary minimal helper tools round up and
facilitate BPF development.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-11 20:28:35 -05:00
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cgroup cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling 2013-01-08 10:00:44 -08:00
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: check for allocation failure 2012-12-02 20:10:18 +01:00
hv Tools: hv: use single send+recv buffer 2013-09-26 12:03:31 -07:00
include/tools tools/include: use stdint types for user-space byteshift headers 2013-07-03 16:02:28 +02:00
lguest tools/lguest: offer VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT for net device. 2013-07-15 11:18:32 +09:30
lib tools lib traceevent: Fix conversion of pointer to integer of different size 2013-11-19 16:37:59 -03:00
net filter: bpf_asm: add minimal bpf asm tool 2013-12-11 20:28:35 -05:00
nfsd NFSD: Added fault injection script 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
perf perf header: Fix possible memory leaks in process_group_desc() 2013-11-19 10:34:05 -03:00
power tools: cpupower: fix wrong err msg not supported vs not available 2013-11-25 23:10:50 +01:00
scripts tools: Harmonize the various build messages in perf, lib-traceevent, lib-lk 2013-10-11 12:18:08 -03:00
testing H8/300 has been dead for several years, the kernel for it has 2013-11-12 14:13:14 +09:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: Introduce tmon, a tool for thermal subsystem 2013-11-07 08:45:34 +08:00
usb tools: usb: ffs-test: Fix build failure 2013-03-07 12:23:17 +08:00
virtio virtio_test: verify if virtqueue_kick() succeeded 2013-10-29 11:28:16 +10:30
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: support KPF_SOFTDIRTY bit 2013-11-13 12:09:07 +09:00
Makefile tools/thermal: Introduce tmon, a tool for thermal subsystem 2013-11-07 08:45:34 +08:00